Today we distributed 10 tons of rice to a tribal village in Kratie.
As I was walking around taking pictures, Pastor Setan gave me a little info on the village. The road is very new and the people in this area are not used to seeing Caucasians. Pastor Setan also told me they are fairly new at wearing clothing. He also pointed out several women who were smoking opium in poppy leaves. He said this was a common thing.
They were already ready for us and waited patiently for the drama team to set up. The local official had a couple of desks from the school set up for us to sit on. It was very hot and luckily the transportation team had umbrellas for us to use.
The rice was stored in the school house and the people were very organized. We had three people at a time go in to get their bag of rice and bag of salt. As they came out our team handed them vitamins and the Gospels.
I got to haul several bags of rice over to waiting vehicles or out of the way. It was very hot work but lots of fun.
One thing I have noticed is that they are pretty friendly people. They usually don't mind having their picture taken...the kids are rather shy...and think it's great when you show them the picture.
We stopped for lunch on the side of the road...Sarah shared the pomellop and I shared my dragon fruit with the team.
Tomorrow we head to Steung Trang Province.
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